“The biggest key to success was that they absolutely played as a team”

For the second time in the last three years, the U-19 Blades girls hockey team brought home the state title. It was the perfect cap to what has been a dominating season for the West Elk Hockey Association (WEHA) team.

The Crested Butte Titan boys basketball team closed out the regular season winning five in a row and holding their own against one of the top 2A programs in the state. Suffice it to say, they are playing their best basketball of the season right now, and that bodes well for the Titans as they head into the district tournament this week.

It’s on people, the playoffs. Who’s it going to be? REG just beat the previously unbeaten Lightning to move into the first seed for the playoffs. The Eldo is surging. The Wine House started off hot and finished the season in third place. The Last Steep always rallies in the post season and I’d like to think that anything could happen in the playoffs.

It’s been written and rewritten that this was going to be a long season, and it was, as the Crested Butte Titan girls basketball team finished the year 1-18, 0-8 in league play.The reasons are all legitimate with a young team that got a late start on the season under the expert tutelage of second-year coach Mike Moran. Moran comes from a long and very successful high school coaching career in Arizona but stepped into a program that needed a lot of work here in Crested Butte.